mrmaster: Mikey1969: Now it's "Asinine" for a company to expect its customers to pay?

You are already paying for multi streams. It is non of their GOD DAMN BUSINESS who or where the 2nd streamer is.

I don't mind them trying to limit their accounts to be being used by the number of people they say you're paying for. If you're paying for an account which two people should be allowed to stream using then I'd have no problem with them trying to cut off a third trying to stream on the account while the other two are already watching something. That's cheating on the part of the consumers.

That said... who those two people are should be none of Netflix's farking business. Block that third simultaneous stream, sure. Even suspend the account of people who have more folks trying to stream at once than is authorized for the account - that could be structured reasonably to do. But more than that and I think Netflix loses the high ground on it. Deciding where the authorized people can or can't be really isn't any of Netflix's business in my opinion - and there are too many unusual family arrangements or temporary kinds of situations that Netflix isn't going to be able to address with automation.

But I don't have any skin in this game. I never thought subscribing to streaming services was better than just running my own, so I use Plex. HBO and others nuking popular serieses for the tax write offs only reinforces that belief for me.

Fonaibung: SirMadness: I will never understand the propensity of Americans to angrily demand the right to throw more money at a corporation to get less.

Are we looking at the same Americans that made Napster and piracy a thing? A minority of people pay for content.

I wouldn't go that far. Most people pay, they don't pirate. Take a random sample of ordinary Americans and few of them would even know how to pirate stuff. The few folks that have asked me how I do it generally don't make it past two sentences of the explanation before they lose interest, because most folks aren't very technically savvy, so it sounds like mostly gibberish to them.

SMB2811: mongbiohazard: mrmaster: Mikey1969: Now it's "Asinine" for a company to expect its customers to pay?

You are already paying for multi streams. It is non of their GOD DAMN BUSINESS who or where the 2nd streamer is.

I don't mind them trying to limit their accounts to be being used by the number of people they say you're paying for. If you're paying for an account which two people should be allowed to stream using then I'd have no problem with them trying to cut off a third trying to stream on the account while the other two are already watching something. That's cheating on the part of the consumers.

That said... who those two people are should be none of Netflix's farking business. Block that third simultaneous stream, sure. Even suspend the account of people who have more folks trying to stream at once than is authorized for the account - that could be structured reasonably to do. But more than that and I think Netflix loses the high ground on it. Deciding where the authorized people can or can't be really isn't any of Netflix's business in my opinion - and there are too many unusual family arrangements or temporary kinds of situations that Netflix isn't going to be able to address with automation.

But I don't have any skin in this game. I never thought subscribing to streaming services was better than just running my own, so I use Plex. HBO and others nuking popular serieses for the tax write offs only reinforces that belief for me.

You know they changed the account definition to say it was for people of a single household when they decided they were going to do this, right?

If you opened a Netflix account before this stupid cash grab, they were very clear on what you were paying for -

"The plan you choose will determine the video quality and the number of screens you can watch Netflix on at the same time. "

https://web.archive.org/web/20220906004713/https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926

Yes, I'm of the same mind on this.

If all they wanted to do was limit excess simultaneous streams I'd have a hard time finding any fault in that, but that's not what they're doing so fark 'em.

Elzar: Well at least there will be more seeds as former netflix sharers decide to pay the iron price...

Ahhhh, the iron price. There's always a price.

I may not pay for Netflix or Hulu, but I still have to shell out somewhat regular infusions of cash on hardware. In the end I actually doubt I'm saving money vs just subscribing to a couple services. But I get a lot more bang for the buck, functionality, and control over the library. HBO pulled Westworld? No worries. Nobody I'm subscribed to carrying a show or movies I really want? No worries. They're wanting to geofence my account? lolz, no worries. Offline viewing isn't possible? No worries. Want something really obscure? No worries (once I find it).

But I still gotta pay. I got servers, and they need maintaining and upgrading. I got proxy services to maintain. There's always a price. Least my friends get it cheap.